Jyoti has left us in darkness.

Exactly one year ago today a young woman, named Jyoti was viciously raped by 4 men inside a bus in Delhi. The attack was so savage in its brutality that all her intestines were ruptured, eventually causing her death due to infection. ' Jyoti ' means ' light ' but what followed her violation was perhaps the darkest period in our history. In order to conceal her name the press named her ' Nirbhay ' which means ' fearless ' as though this young woman, out for an innocent evening with her boyfriend, had any choice in the bestiality visited on her. Was it an attempt to make her sound noble as though she had volunteered her life in the cause of her country, as women do in the armed forces, and thus sanitise the disgusting event to protect the Congress government? There was a spontaneous outpouring of anger at this senseless destruction of a life and people, especially the young, came from all over the country to demonstrate on the streets. The politicians completely ignored the event at first. Safe in their billion rupee bungalows, paid for by the taxpayer, travelling in cars with flashing lights, claiming right of way over ambulances and fire engines, and protected by a posse of police, armed with automatic guns the loss of one life in a country of 1.2 billion is of little concern to them. This when Delhi had a woman Chief Minister, of the Congress, and a woman totally controls the Congress which runs the central government. When the anger boiled over at the callous disregard of the politicians they reacted the way they have always done when faced with peaceful protests. With brutal force. People were savagely beaten up, gassed and arrested on false charges. When a policeman collapsed and died, probably due to the exertion of thrashing people, it was immediately announced that he had been beaten to death by the protesters. This was an excuse to clamp down even more brutally and eventually the protesters had to flee to save their own lives. Later the lie was exposed. The policeman had died of a heart attack. To cover up for their earlier mistake the politicians suddenly brimmed over with tender love and she was sent to a Singapore hospital for treatment. She was probably dead by this time anyway. The result of this cruel farce? Rape cases have doubled since then. Poor Jyoti. Her light was extinguished twice - once by her attackers and then by the politicians. Poor Indians - we are imprisoned in the dark by our politicians.